Straining to Care About Strains

David Schmader | SEP 26, 2016

Walk into any weed store in Seattle, and you’ll be bombarded with dozens of available strains, most boasting prog-rock names and each promising a specific experience. Chocolope, one of the 90-plus strains available at Cannabis City, promises a “dreamy cerebral effect” and “a strong mental shift that is great when coping with depression or stress.” PK Starship, one of the 100-plus strains at Uncle Ike’s, offers a “hard-hitting body high, delivering warm and relaxing waves over the body.” These are but two of literally hundreds of nominally distinct offerings available to weed consumers, with the overloaded cornucopia positing marijuana highness as an intricately mappable state of being warranting endless investigation.

Straining to Care About Strains